IN-FUTURE - Integrated languages for an innovative future

"Thanks to the partnership between the two schools, the Italian Maria Consolatrice and the Spanish Gala Colegio, the IN-FUTURE project achieved the exchange of knowledge, methodologies and good practices.The teachers were able to obtain experience in the field of application of CLIL methodology (Content and Language Integrated Learning), but also in the ""flipped classroom"" techniques, in which they can overturn the traditional learning techniques for students, using in a more productive way the time in classroom and teaching the kids that technology and the internet can be used as tools to reach alternative solutions.Students, by their side, had the opportunity to experiment new learning methods and to share those they know with their European colleagues.The students remained in virtual contact for the duration of the project and many of them will continue in the future. This experience allowed them to get to know each other, apply the language in an informal context and share experiences.The school to school exchange consolidated this synergy and allowed participants to explore new methods, attend lessons and exchange experiences among teachers and students, also through extracurricular activities, such as visits to places of interest and moments of recreational activities.The project has seen the creation of an interactive, multimedia and integrated learning path in order to promote a participatory approach and a real interest of the students, who are been led to understand the real application of what they will learn.The project allowed not only the creation of international networks and future collaborations, but above all, the strengthening of the European dimension of education offered to students and a strong drive towards innovation.The learning of foreign languages, the development of students' creativity and spirit of initiative, the knowledge and understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity was strongly encouraged.The project therefore had intends to:- the school was able to create new networks for sharing methodologies and best practices;- students were able to improve their language skills, through innovative and more effective teaching methods by applying the language through a real full immersion;- the teachers have enhanced their technical and linguistic skills through the management of an additional training path to the normal teaching which has allowed the experimentation of new experiences of active and participatory learning, in particular the CLIL methodology and the Flipped Classroom."